Jason Warner

Jason Warner is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard's African and African American Studies Department. He is completing his Ph.D. dissertation in African Studies (with a focus in Government) entitled, “Multilateral Machinations: African International Organizations and Members’ Pursuits of National Security in West Africa and the Greater Horn," with an expected graduation in May 2016. His dissertation argues that polarity within African regions plays a determinative role in how African states strategize how regional and pan-African international organizations can and cannot help them achieve their national security interests. 

Jason holds an M.A. in Government from Harvard (2013); an M.A. in African Studies from Yale (2010); and a B.A. (highest honors) in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His writing has appeared in a diversity of academic, policy, and popular outlets. He is the co-editor, with Timothy Shaw, of African Foreign Policies in International Institutions (under contract with Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), which investigates how African states construct their foreign policies towards African and global international organizations. He has published numerous academic journal articles and book chapters, in addition to writing pieces accessible to the general public in venues such as The Boston Globe, CNN.com, ForeignAffairs.com, The International Herald Tribune, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Africa in Transition blog.

Beyond academia, he has been engaged in the practice of international affairs in various capacities. Among others, he has worked or performed consultancies for the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations, Freedom House, and the Naval Postgraduate School. From 2014-2015 he was a U.S. Government Boren National Security Fellow studying the African Union's security policy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.